Graduate Planning Reports

This page provides links to the full text of Masters Research Reports that earned honors or honorable-mention designation from the faculty.

Honors-Awarded Reports,
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024:

• LINK [pdf] to "Laws in Tension: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Transit Access for Low-income Households" by Alison Cingolani
  
  
• LINK [pdf] to "Revitalizing South Bascom Avenue through Urban Design" by Abenaezer Tassew
  
  

• LINK [pdf] to "Whose Vote is it Anyway?" by Judith Heher

• LINK [pdf] to "Planning for Dedicated Cycling and Pedestrian Pathways in Santa Clara County" by Evan Franklin

• LINK [pdf] to "What's in the Bike Lane? A Study of the Factors Leading to Bike Lane Obstructions in two Bay Area Cities" by Scott Karoly

• LINK [pdf] to "Relationship between Eelgrass Coverage, Edge Length, and Epifauna Abundance with UAV Remote Sensing: A Case Study on the Northeast Pacific Coast" by Tou In Kwan

Honorable Mention-Awarded Reports,
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024:

• LINK [pdf] to "Effectiveness of Inclusionary Housing Ordiannces in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Case Study of Fremont, Mountain View, San José, and San Francisco" by Maria Kisyova
  
  
• LINK [pdf] to "Electrifying Bay Area: Policy Analysis and Prescription for Transitioning Bay Area Transit Buses to Zero Emission Fleet" by Janani Thiagarajan
  
  
• LINK [pdf] to "Self-Driving San José: Designing San José's Autonomous Future" by Maxwell Friedman
  
  
• LINK [pdf] to "The Relationship between Traffic-Adjacent Air Pollution and Health Challenges in the San Francisco Bay Area" by Jaisipa Mingthaisong

Honors Masters Research Reports from earlier semesters:

Towards a More Sustainable, Reliable and Equitable Power Grid in California: Identifying Barriers to Local Energy Utilities and Solutions for a Better Way Forward [pdf], by Ralph Danahy Robinson

Rebanking Urban Design: Urban Growth and Stream Corridor Connection [pdf], by Clelia Busadas

Tree Canopy Coverage and Reducing the Heat Island Effect: Mitigation Strategies for the City of San Francisco [pdf], by Diego Romero

Getting There: The Effects of First and Last Mile Infrastructure and Services on Rail Ridership [pdf], by Benjamin Salter

Factors Affecting the Accessibility and Appeal of the Public Bike Share System of Medellin, Colombia [pdf], by Andrea Arjona Amador

Seamless, Sustainable, Smart: Reimagining Novato's Public Transportation Network [pdf], by Anthony Nachor

Memos and Mega Projects: Applying Planners' Perceptions of Their Software to a Framework for the Future of Planning, [pdf] by Richard L. Davis

Contamination to Cooperation: How Green Stormwater Infrastructure can Foster Collaboration in San Jose [pdf], by Carolyn Neer

Sunday Drivers, or Too Fast and Too Furious? Analyzing Speed, Rider Behaviour, and Traffic Conflicts of E-Scooter Share [pdf], by Juan Francisco Arellano, P.Eng.

Bicycle Access to the Oakland Waterfront: The High Street Connection to the San Francisco Bay Trail [pdf], by Sean Dougan

No Accident: How Population Characteristics and Land Use Influence Street Safety for Pedestrians in San Francisco, [pdf] by Mike Jacobson